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Eric, please tell us why you repeat Heraldo’s postings on your blog? What is your relationship to Heraldo that you need to repost whatever Heraldo posts? If Heraldo is secret, Mitch, or whoever, why do you guys need to hide identities as if you’re crooks or something? Are you crooks? I’m hearing more and more reports of Gallegos being linked to local criminals, the latest rumor coming from a cop who should know, and I do remember how actively you and Heraldo campaigned for him. Come clean, repent of your crooked ways, and stop supporting crookedness in office.

Stephen – I joined up with the Herald team a couple of months ago. If there is a post I think will be of interest both here and there, I post. If you look at the bottom of the posts, you will see my name, Mitch’s or Heraldo’s. No, I do not know who the original Heraldo is.

Don’t forget about the Keep Food Legal blog:

Of course, what we’re talking about isn’t food. Not that I support the bans, but the blog is misnamed.

And it’s kind of a rote approach to the discussion. Yes, it’s an issue of liberty and all that, but there are other elements to the discussion, such as exponential increases in obesity, high blood pressure, heart disease, etc. because of the world’s first ever epidemic of malnutrition out of abundance of volume of “food.” I think the Republican mayor’s approach is wrong, but in all the whining about “food police” I don’t really see much of a discussion about an alternative solution.

Thirty years later Orwell would echo the findings of the Committee on Physical Deterioration. He states that in Lancashire “you would have to look for a long time before you saw a working-class person with good natural teeth.” In Sheffield, he adds, “you have the feeling of walking among a population of troglodytes.” This he attributes to a hard life and a steady diet of “bread-and-marg and sugared tea,” which he characterizes as the “Englishman’s opium.”

A good percentage of the household budget went to procuring this drug. Orwell notes that mining families “spend only tenpence a week on green vegetables and tenpence halfpenny on milk, and nothing on fruit.” The rest they fritter away on sugar and tea. If anything remains, the family might invest in “five tins of bully beef,” a pathetic stand-in for the great proletarian joint of yesteryear. Ought they to have spent their money on more wholesome food? Not at all. “A millionaire may enjoy breakfasting off orange juice and Ryvita biscuits; the unemployed man doesn’t,” Orwell reasons. “When you are unemployed, which is to say when you are underfed, harassed, bored, and miserable, you don’t want to eat dull wholesome food. You want something a little bit ‘tasty’….White bread-and-marg and sugared tea don’t nourish you to any extent, but they are nicer.” Orwell concludes that the “endless misery” that comes with unemployment “has got to be constantly palliated.” Prewar Britain witnessed nothing less than the birth of “comfort food.”

Thanks for the link to the WWOOfing story. I have wondered about that “movement” and enjoyed and was enlightened by the author’s description of his experience and his considered thoughts on the project as a whole.

On a completely different food tack: I am much concerned by the relationship between oil and fat.

The combustion engine took over most of the labor of humans in the last century. We not only drive cars for trips of half a block, we have become so feeble that we are no longer expected to be able to roll the car window up and down. We need a motor to do that too. The cultural norm is that “exercise” is something you do in a gym not work your body does to accomplish some useful chore. So we become obese.

Five weeks ago Humboldt Buttermilk was deleted from market shelves. In Ramiel Nagel’s book ‘Cure Tooth Decay’ it’s explained just how important grass-fed cow’s milk is – especially buttermilk. About four months after I read this book, of all the freekin things to be taken from us – is buttermilk!!!

Ok, you finally owned up to being a Heraldo clone. Now why don’t you confess to how Richard Salzman plays into your blog under assumed identities, his forte. All of you need to really look at your ethics of politics after all the Prog support you guys gave to what seems to be a crook in office, our DA, just as Rose warned the community for so many years. It seems Progs will back anyone regardless of their ethics as long as they stand for anti-economic development in Humboldt County.

Anon 6:42 – Considering that you posted that anonymously, I’d say something about glass houses and all, but I’ll just say that while I am posting at Heraldo’s, I am responsible for my posts, Mitch is responsible for Mitch’s posts, and Heraldo is responsible for Heraldo’s posts. I don’t agree with all they say, and I doubt they agree with all that I say. The point is that it’s a forum which seems to meet a need, and I was invited to participate.

As to Stephen’s incoherent rant, I’m not going to respond. Richard has his own blog.

Well, here’s an example. My 10:32 (really 11:32 AM) short comment appeared immediately. I also posted a longer comment, same thread, two minutes earlier, and it has landed in moderation. The short version of that one is I’m not Heraldo.

Nice footwork, Mitch, but you failed to answer my question. Why am I still being censored on Heraldo whose topics are mirrored here and which you claimed last week to be running. What is it with you guys that you just cannot seem to be straightforward about identity manipulation?

Are these the questions you want answered? “If Heraldo is secret, Mitch, or whoever, why do you guys need to hide identities as if you’re crooks or something? Are you crooks?”

I tried a few days ago, but my long version got deleted. Here goes.

Well, for starters, I don’t hide my identity. I generally don’t use my last name on the blogs, but neither do I hide it. It’s up at http://humboldtagainsthate.blogspot.com, because in that context it’s absence might be misinterpreted as hiding.

As for Heraldo, I think s/he/y are wise to hide their identity. Unfortunately, in the small pond of Humboldt, it is easy for the stronger to crush the weaker. For example, a distressingly large part of our economy is under the control of government and a very few other large employers. Piss off the wrong person and you’ve severely limited your employment prospects.

Am I a crook? No more than most. Less, I hope and like to think.

Are Heraldo crooks, or is Heraldo a crook? I doubt it, but given that I have no more idea of his/her/their identity than do you, I have no idea.